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In another episode of JustPublics@365's podcast series, Margaret Chin (Assoc. Prof., Hunter, Sociology) speaks about immigrants, working poor families, race and ethnicity, and Asian Americans who lost or changed jobs during the recent recession.

Legendary composer Philip Glass speaks about his music and how the process of collaboration with exceptionally creative minds (including Richard Sera, Ravi Shankar, and Godfrey Reggio) has shaped his career.

We have started to become comfortable reading books through Kindles, iPads, and other devices, observes Matthew K. Gold, a professor of digital humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. "Are we willing to have them help us read, and help us perform the critical interpretation?"

The Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies (CLACLS) was featured in BBC Mundo and NY1 Noticias for their study on NYC's growing Mexican population. In NY1 Noticias, Professor Laird Bergad (History), who serves as director of CLACLS, comments on their findings.

Professor Setha Low (Anthropology) directs the Public Space Research Group, which studies the health of the public commons across the United States. Again and again, she sees a confounding pattern: "No organized constituency speaks for parks," Low notes. "So like schools and libraries, parks suffer from chronic underfunding."

According to David Harvey (Dist. Prof., GC, Anthropology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, History), the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression shows no sign of coming to a close, and Marx's work remains key in understanding the cycles that lead to recession.

Lily Hoffman (Assoc. Prof., City, Sociology) discusses the resurgence of infectious disease as a threat to public health in our globalized world, which presents social as well as biomedical challenges.

Reverdy's poetry has exerted a special attraction on American poets from Kenneth Rexroth to John Ashbery. This new selection features the work of fourteen distinguished translators, including Mary Ann Caws (Dist. Prof., GC, Comparative Literature, English, French), and offers readers the essential work of an extraordinary writer.

Alumna Maria Boes (History, 1989) reveals shifting and fluid attitudes towards crime and punishment and how these were conditioned by issues of gender, class, and social standing within the city's establishment.

Noel Carroll (Dist. Prof., GC, Philosophy) addresses the philosophical aspects of popular films and pop culture in thought-provoking essays at the intersection of the popular and the profound. He ranges across the philosophy of Halloween to psychoanalysis and the horror film.

In an important new contribution to the field of narrative research, Colette Daiute (Prof., GC, Psychology, Urban Education) explains the principles of what she terms "dynamic narrating" and how it compares to other forms of narrative research.

In the United States, ethnicity is often positioned as a counterweight to the fiction of "race," and we celebrate our various hyphenated-American identities. Vilna Bashi Treitler (Assoc. Prof., Baruch, Sociology) argues that we do so at a high cost: ethnic thinking simply perpetuates an underlying racism.

Professor Emeritus Martin Moskowitz's latest book, cowritten with GC alumnus Ioannis Farmakis, focuses on fixed point theorems. Their importance is due to their wide applicability. The book is written for graduate students and professional mathematicians, physicists, economists, and engineers.

Anahi Viladrich (Assoc. Prof., Hunter, Public Health) presents the world of Argentine tango and its glamorous façade of music and movement. The book offers a detailed portrait of Argentine immigrants for whom tango is both an art form and a means of survival.

This state-of-the-art volume, edited by Janet Gornick (Prof., GC, Political Science, Sociology), presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citizens: economic inequality.

This volume, coedited by alumnus Bruce Altschuler (Political Science, 1980), gleans valuable lessons from the writings of William Shakespeare and applies them to contemporary politics, covering over a dozen different plays that take up perennial political themes.